KC @ TOR
Home plate: Carlos Torres
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike
Carter Jensen vs Max Scherzer - 2+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball
John Rave vs Paul Sewald - 3+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
Alejandro Kirk vs Connor Thomas
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Myles Straw — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jesús Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.